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An update on the Sebastopol Whole Foods anti-free speech policy reported earlier.

The update is: It doesn't exist.

We reported what we thought was a new corporate-wide Whole Foods policy barring political activities at their stores. This is not the case.

The Sebastopol and Santa Rosa stores have barred all political activities because they felt they needed to bar a particularly aggressive Christian group soliciting donations in front of their stores and their lawyers (Wholes Foods' lawyers, not the Christians' lawyers) told them "bar one, bar all". So, in order to get rid of the pushy donation seekers, they also had to get rid of the signature gatherers they had previously allowed.

That's it. Story over. Send the crew back to covering non-developments in decade-old child murders and

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